Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Google News created a new way for readers to easily find the top stories. They’ve created a “Standout” tag which is set in the header of the story in order to flag down the reader. Also, in working with the competition, there is also a peer-to-element which will send the reader to competitions best stories.

Instructions on Standout

First journalists will identify critical stories and then the stories will then have the Standout tag fixed on the header. Finally, Google News adds a “Feature” label to the story, thus attracting more readers.

In order to prevent companies from labeling every story as important, Google reserves the power to deem what is important.

Goggle reported that most people go to them for news and as such they claimed to have over one billion clicks every month.